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Visual Capitalist: Gold’s Annual Returns (2000-2025)
Visualized: Gold’s Annual Returns from 2000 to 2025 YTD Key Takeaways Gold prices are up 1,075% from 2000 to 2025 (YTD as of July 3) On average, gold has delivered a 10.9% annual return over 25 years 2025 is one of gold’s best years in terms of returns, up 27% as of July 3, 2025 […]
John Hancock: Weekly Market Recap Week Ended July 18
Solid earnings start Earnings from the first three major U.S. banks to report second-quarter results exceeded analysts’ expectations owing in part to a surge in investment banking income. As of Friday, analysts were forecasting that financials sector earnings rose 8.6%—above the 5.6% growth forecast across all sectors in the S&P 500, according to FactSet. Retail […]
LPL: Retail investor Behavior And Flows
Additional content provided by Tucker Beale, Analyst, Research. Retail investors are generally defined as non-institutional market participants who trade their own personal accounts rather than making trades as part of a larger financial institution. Retail investor influence over capital markets has increased as their collective trading makes up an increasing percentage of total volume. The […]
Visual Capitalist: Emerging Markets By FDI Confidence
Ranked: Emerging Markets by FDI Confidence Key Takeaways China, the UAE, and Saudi Arabia are the top three emerging markets by FDI confidence in 2025 Brazil overtook India to take the fourth spot, with both countries making the top five Domestic economic performance and efficiency of legal and regulatory processes were the top two priorities […]
John Hancock: Weekly Market Recap Week Ended July 11
Earnings ahead As major U.S. banks prepared to open quarterly earnings season in mid-July, analysts were forecasting that second-quarter earnings for all companies in the S&P 500 rose by an average of 4.8% overall, according to FactSet. If that turns out to be the actual rate, it would be the slowest earnings growth since the […]
John Hancock: Midyear 2025 Global Macro Outlook
Midyear 2025 global macro outlook: what’s changed and what hasn’t At the beginning of 2025, we identified five macroeconomic themes we expected to persist throughout the year. Six months later, we take a geographic approach to our outlook, outlining region by region how we see the rest of the year unfolding. At the beginning […]
Visual Capitalist: The Largest U.S. Companies By Revenue In 2025
Key Takeaways Walmart generated $681 billion in revenue, leading the rankings for the 13th year in a row. Ranking in second is Amazon, with $637 billion in revenue—but nearly three times the profits as Walmart. Overall, Cigna Group (#13) saw the biggest jump in annual revenues across the top 25, at 26.6%, followed by Meta […]
John Hancock: Weekly Market Recap Week Ended July 4
Q2’s market comeback U.S. stock indexes finished this year’s second quarter with big gains despite April’s tariff-driven market decline. The S&P 500 climbed 10.6% overall after posting monthly gains of 6.2% in May and 5.0% in June. On a year-to-date basis, the index was up 5.5% as the quarter closed on Monday. Jobs strength Stocks […]
John Hancock: Weekly Market Recap Week Ended June 27
Falling yields Yields of U.S. government bonds fell for the third week in a row, with yields of notes with shorter maturities posting the biggest declines. On Friday afternoon, the yield of the 10-year U.S. Treasury was 4.28%, down from a recent peak of 4.60% on May 21. Trade talks Ahead of a July 9 […]